Analysis of the Use of Force During the year of 1938, there was a serious epidemic of diphtheria. A number of cases of diphtheria had happened in the school and most of the patients who had diphtheria were facing death. Therefore, doctors were in demand and they had to cure their patients in an efficient time in order to help more patients. However, in order to finish the examination quickly, the doctors sometimes would ignore their patients’ emotions easily. Therefore, it would create the conflict between the doctors and the patients. William Carlos Williams focused this problem in his story “the Use of Force”. Although the doctor in the story meant to help the sick girl Mathilda who had diphtheria, he is not justified …show more content…
Firstly, he applies that the idea of esthetic order is abandoned or radically modified as he does not use quotation marks for the conversation in the story. He works with the unfamiliar form, which disturbs the audience. Writing without quotation marks is a sign of division from traditional culture to the new one. This writing style shows that the author wants to inform he is the leader to found a new writing style. Secondly, the author writes in the form of shock. As a doctor, he uses the force to assault the little sick girl regardless of her furious unwilling and physical hurt because of the revenge to her resistance. The doctors have the stereotype that they are always patient, helpful. However, in William’s story, the doctor’s image becomes contemptible and horrible that he has a battle with the girl, which makes the audiences shocked. Also, he writes in the form of surprise. In the beginning of the story, from his narration, it seems like this story is to blame the girl since she lacks of obedience. Surprisingly, when we finish reading the story, we can consider the story as the speaker’s confession. He expresses his guilty to the hurt girl and his own unprofessionalism. Instead of blaming the girl’s stubbornness, he writes the details honestly and admits his great sense of joy in defeating the restless patient, which makes the audiences feel surprised in the end. Therefore, we can see that the writer successfully shows the audiences the form of surprise and
...mother realize the identity of her daughter's rapist before the Marquise, establishing irony and advancing engagement between reader and text. It is also clear to the reader that by the conclusion of The Yellow Wallpaper, the narrator has become maniacal.
Although the author portrays a bitter tone throughout the text, there are many occasions in which there are multiple tones being used at the same time. For instance, when the author was in the ambulance, he was perceived as having a critical tone. He was criticizing and finding fault in what the paramedics and doctors were doing as he began to lose his feeling of personalization. Diction begins to tie into here as it also reflects onto the tone through complex word choice. Once in the hospital, he began to compare the hospital with prison by using a depressed yet confused tone. He compares them by telling the audience about the infamous Tower of London. Sacks became delirious and was unsure of what was going on. Adding such tone entices the audience though the effect of depersonalization on Sacks. However, after being told about the operation, Sacks’ tone went from constrained to incredulous and unsure. He claims of having “hallucinatory vividness” which ties back to the incredulous tone. This tone adds the suspicion to the hospital because such distinctness is not a normal occurrence. As explained, tone plays a crucial role in exemplifying the negative connotation and subject of the passage by using pathos and feelings of the author to reflect in the
In contrast, syntax provides a new perspective to the narrator s behavior as sentence structure draws attention to her erratic behavior. By her last entry, the narrator s sentences have become short and simple. Paragraphs 227 through 238 contain few adjectives resulting in limited descriptions yet her short sentences emphasize her actions providing plenty of imagery. The syntax quickly pulls the reader through the end as the narrator reaches an end to her madness.
In this piece Williams uses very effective persuasion. She starts off by telling you about how all the females in her family suffers from breast cancer. This brings a lot of emotion out of the audience that leads to added sympathy fro the author. I know I felt sorry for her. I was on her side from the start of the piece. Her tone was very sentimental. Then she goes on to state facts. Nothing wins an argument better than sound, strong fa...
During the first 20 paragraphs, Williams is simply recalling the events as they had taken place. Never revealing the death of the child. We are led to believe that the child never dies, but Williams gives us clues into her death when he states in paragraph 31, "I have seen at least two children lying dead in bed of neglect." His guilt of how he handled the situation plunges his imagination down a dark, immoral path. The pivotal point between reality and his vivid imagination becomes clear when he states, "I explained the danger but said that I would not insist on the throat examination so long as they (her parents) would take the responsibility." This is where his imagination takes over. Instantly, his adoration and love for the young girl turns to utter loathing. He goes on to describe her as a "savage brat."
“The police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence,” Robert Peel. The use of force for police officers is something I find to be justified and right, because it can possible help save the officers life and any witnesses lives.
According to the Dictionary of Policing, “Force is the exercise of physical coercion by the police in the performance of their duties” (Rappert). While many believe that the use of force by police is not needed and only causes more problems, there are also people who support officers and their use of force in order to protect. Police should be able to use force without opposition to detain people trying to harm others, save their own lives, and stop escalating situations.
Utilizing adverbs such as “tremulous” to amplify “shake” and “violently” to amplify “move” create a perceivable image of interaction; here, the violent move is not truly an actual motion, rather, it is a physical manifestation of the intangible mental shock that the narrator experiences. However, it is important to note that, to the narrator, the most physically shocking and moving thing in this interaction was not the “finger” of this stranger, but the tone, the intangible abstraction of the “solemn admonition” in the “low whisper”. This abstraction had the electrical current of a “galvanic battery” to “shock” the non-physical soul of the protagonist. The complexity of this excerpt is seen through the multiple dependent clauses, lists of adjectives, and conjunctions; this complex and “serious” style is what Allen Tate, in his essay found in “Modern Criticism”, believes “makes the reading of more than one story an almost insuperable task” (Foster 389). However, this failed criticism does not truly comment on the Poe’s style, but rather, comments on the reader’s interpretation. This style doesn’t create an insuperable task of reading, but rather creates a gradually intensifying sense of Poe’s methodical complexity that incentivizes the reader to keep reading, while providing specific ambiguities through indirect concretizations like the aforementioned “shock” to
As the story begins, the unnamed doctor is introduced as one who appears to be strictly professional. “Aas often, in such cases, they weren’t telling me more than they had to, it was up to me to tell them; that’s why they were spending three dollars on me.” (par. 3) The doctor leaves the first impression that he is one that keeps his attention about the job and nothing out of the ordinary besides stating his impressions on the mother, father and the patient, Mathilda. Though he does manage to note that Mathilda has a fever. The doctor takes what he considers a “trial shot” and “point of departure” by inquiring what he suspects is a sore throat (par. 6). This point in the story, nothing remains out of the ordinary or questionable about the doctor’s methods, until the story further develops.
Diligence is a virtue. This is a theme Atul Gawande presents to the reader throughout Better: A Surgeon’s Notes on Performance. In each story, Gawande provides insight on medical studies he has previously embarked upon. For example, in “The Mop-up” the author tells us about a time when he went to India to observe the efforts to eradicate polio. Gawande explains how he followed a supervisor around and how vaccinations were performed. Additionally, in another chapter he debates on whether physicians should take part in death sentences. Throughout his adventures Gawande provides numerous enriching personal accounts of controversial events and what it is like to be a doctor; each with diligence playing a key part.
...me; it give me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together. Perhaps this is the strongest pleasure known to me" (p. 72). She explains that it is through writing down her shocks that she both makes them real and takes away their pain. Viewing her memoir in this context, it is no surprise that she writes more to herself than to any audience. The simple act of writing about these shocks is possibly her greatest pleasure.
Doctors have to go through many years of studying and many more hours of practicing on people. These qualities make any doctor seem god-like to the eyes of everyday people. Doctors are trusted blindly and people are led to believe that doctors are always honest. In the story, The Use of Force by William Carlos Williams, the parents of Matilda question the tactics the doctor is using to properly diagnose the girl but trust that the doctor knows what he is doing and lets him use force anyway. These cases are seen all over the world as well. There have been many reported cases of doctors using force to allow patients to get treated. Some patients however, do not wish to be treated because of things like religion or preference or other reasons but doctors still treat them in order to save them from themselves. The power struggle creates anger and resentment from both parties and blurs the line between personal rights and saving lives. In an article written by Jessica Grose, doctors force a woman to have a C-Section because they believe it was in the baby’s best interest. However, the woman did not want to have the surgery performed. This led to the doctors threatening to sue the woman for possible child endangerment. The woman, in fear of possibly killing her child, sided with the health care providers even though personally she did not want to have the surgery performed. This
What is considered force in law enforcement? Force is the amount of physical interaction between individuals or objects. Law enforcement officers use force when it is necessary, in order to protect individuals from each other. Police officers have the discretion to use force in situations that they see as necessary. What is the limit that law enforcement officers are able to use physical force? The amount used is dependent on the law enforcement officer in the situation. The use of force can be categorized into soft hands, presence, hard hands, baton, and deadly force. We have seen from current events that law enforcement has used the wrong judgment in the force they apply to a situation. Society has have made the image of law enforcement look
Coercive Use Of Force Wedny Francois CJE 1000 – Introduction To Law Enforcement Dr. Anthony Berrios The use of coercive authority by members of law enforcement is a widely debated issue both here in the United States and in countries around the world. Growing up in Haiti, I witnessed many instances of coercive, or excessive, tactics by authority figures. When a child would commit a crime, many times all of the kids in the neighborhood were punished, even if they had no part in or knowledge of the wrongdoing. Police officers and other government agents sometime exceed the appropriate level of authority they are authorized to use.
• The Use of Force is about a girl who may have Diphtheria, but refuses to open her mouth to let the doctor look at her throat. After much struggle, emotional and physical, the doctor forces her to open her mouth and it turns out she does indeed have the disease.